Made it to Tulsa

[CS1983]

Adios, Colorado. We are now in Tulsa (well, Bixby for the time being).

Drive went well. Have the truck mostly unpacked. Since this is a short term lease, month to month, and we are hoping to buy a place once our house in COS sells, I don?t plan to unpack much. The rental has a swing set in the backyard, so the boys are happy. Nice neighborhood.

My new manager already has me scheduled for some neat classes and conferences.

I think I?ll go buy a 30 round pmag tomorrow cus I can. :)

[Irving]

Nice work, that was really fast! Hope everything settles down and everyone acclimates quickly.

[Fentonite]

Best wishes in your new endeavor. I’m envious (kind of).

[Scanker19]

Awesome! Oklahoma always has a place in my heart. I want to end up there at some point.

[brutal]

Adios, Colorado. We are now in Tulsa (well, Bixby for the time being).

Drive went well. Have the truck mostly unpacked. Since this is a short term lease, month to month, and we are hoping to buy a place once our house in COS sells, I don?t plan to unpack much. The rental has a swing set in the backyard, so the boys are happy. Nice neighborhood.

My new manager already has me scheduled for some neat classes and conferences.

I think I?ll go buy a 30 round pmag tomorrow cus I can. :)

Glad you made it there safe and sound.


Hell, buy a D50.

Or a Surefire 60.

Or a pmag 40.

(send me a D50, I don't have one)

[Gman]

1st wife is buried there at Memorial Park Cemetery, along with much of her family. Her extended family still lives there. I like the mature trees in the older neighborhoods...and getting a Whataburger is a possibility.

I wish you the best and hope things work out for you there in OK.

[rtr]

How’s the humidity?

[Bailey Guns]

Congrats on starting a new life in a new place. It's exciting and fun to learn about your new surroundings. Hope it all works out well for you.

[KevDen2005]

I have family in Broken Arrow. Honestly, Tulsa is a little congested for me, but I liked it a lot and the people were pretty awesome.

[crays]

I used to (might still) have family in Broken Arrow. Small world. Most of them have moved to Grove.

Best of luck to you and your family as you start your new path.

[Great-Kazoo]

Good deal on the move and best of luck in the new NON-Liberal state. Now to get a SOLD! sign on the CO house would be deluxe.

[Irving]

I think you should keep your house as a rental so you can come back here all the time!

[ChickNorris]

I think you should keep your house as a rental so you can come back here all the time!

Yeah because doing chores & evicting squatters while you're on vacation time is fun!

[Gman]

Yeah because doing chores & evicting squatters while you're on vacation time is fun!

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[CS1983]

Honestly, the humidity isn’t that bad. I certainly didn’t sweat more unpacking the truck than I did packing it in Colorado.

Definitely want to get the Colorado house sold ASAP. The place we are staying in is itself on the market, hence the short term lease. We, and they, have to give 45 days notice. So if it sells we have 45 days to find another place. It’s overpriced for the area, and needs updating, so I’m not exceptionally worried.

I expect about 14 days for our house until it’s under contract.

If we can’t find a place we are comfortable staying for 10-15 years, we will just rent until something comes up. Market is so slow here that I don’t want to play the “we’ll just sell it in a few years” game. Cus that might result in sitting on a property for 6 months or more.

[Skip]

Wow! Making things happen!

[CS1983]

Attached pic is major highway through Tulsa around 1pm central time.

87 octane - 2.29/gal
Diesel - 2.51/gal
E85 - 1.99/gal

78440

[hurley842002]

4 hours to the Ozarks, that's a big bonus, I've never been, but would like to someday.


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[brutal]

Attached pic is major highway through Tulsa around 1pm central time.

87 octane - 2.29/gal
Diesel - 2.51/gal
E85 - 1.99/gal



It's not much worse than that during Rush Hour. LOL

Been there a few times for work. Stayed up north for one job, nearer to the site. Big HP/Agilent data center down the road from the (then) being constructed Amazon warehouse there.

Stayed south just off 75 for the other that was in the downtown area. Took me a whole extra 2 minutes to get there during the morning rush.

[Bailey Guns]

Attached pic is major highway through Tulsa around 1pm central time.

87 octane - 2.29/gal
Diesel - 2.51/gal
E85 - 1.99/gal

It is so nice to live in an area where traffic isn't an issue. I was slack-jawed for the first 6 months after leaving CO about how pleasant it is to drive when there's no traffic. We're about 110 miles from the nearest interstate. Of course, everything's relative...after living here almost 4 years if I have to wait for 2 or 3 cars at an intersection I start bitching about how bad the traffic's getting.

[Rant2]

Unfortunately, fuel prices here are $0.35 to $0.45 higher than what you're seeing there.

[Zundfolge]

If we can’t find a place we are comfortable staying for 10-15 years, we will just rent until something comes up. Market is so slow here that I don’t want to play the “we’ll just sell it in a few years” game. Cus that might result in sitting on a property for 6 months or more.

IIRC land is pretty cheap out there so maybe find a nice plot and build something cool (with a range and everything). That's our plan once we decide when and where we're going.

[hurley842002]

after living here almost 4 years.

Wow it's already been that long, time flies!


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[whitewalrus]

Have fun living on Tulsa time :)

[BPTactical]

Attached pic is major highway through Tulsa around 1pm central time.

87 octane - 2.29/gal
Diesel - 2.51/gal
E85 - 1.99/gal

78440

I always knew something was weird about Okies.
It's not that they are basakwards dude.
They're freakin sideways man......

[whitewalrus]

Yeah because doing chores & evicting squatters while you're on vacation time is fun!

Sounds like you have been a landlord before...

[Justin]

Any idea what the market is like down there for Engineering, Systems Architecture or Cyber?

[TEAMRICO]

Awesome! Oklahoma always has a place in my heart. I want to end up there at some point.
God just give me the opportunity to start calling you an Okie...

[Irving]

Sounds like you have been a landlord before...

That's why I chose to explore other areas of passive income.

[CS1983]

Any idea what the market is like down there for Engineering, Systems Architecture or Cyber?

Pretty good, I think. Definitely a fair amount of openings. Very little in the way of .gov cleared positions. Mainly oil/gas and some other sectors. Also diverse between IT/OT.

I basically decided I wouldn’t move unless I could get an IT Security job. So I only applied to those sorts of positions. I think I applied to about 8 places. Had two interviews and one offer. Still haven’t heard yea/nay from the place that actually flew me out, but the other company sent an offer the day after the video interview.

[wyome]

Tulsa....time for a Whataburger and if they're up there a Del Rancho burger

[zteknik]

Best of luck Brother!![Beer]

[Wolfshoon]

Bixby is the real nice suburb of Tulsa, so good job landing there. Northwest sections were the "questionable" section of town when I went to school in Tulsa for 3 years back in the late 80's. But Way better time living there than the 5 years of hell living in the SanFran area of CA. Getting back to Colorado was always the goal, but it has turned a little sour the last 5 years (who knew that marijuana would ruin the state so much so fast?). Enough so that I am passively looking at neighbor states, but that is way down the line.

Good luck in your new locale, there is actually a fair amount of things to do in Tulsa once you start digging. The only thing that literally bugged me about OK was the sheer number of insects. Other than that, everything else was tolerable or cool. (but no mountains either)